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Nov-17-2005 17:14

Okay, if I could be any sleuth, real or fictional, I would want to be Edgar allen Poe's detective, Dupin. Although each story is uniquem I love his subtly and mystery.

Sometimes, the most obvious spot, is the least likely, and therefore the last place you would look.

Okay, so who is your detective?

Nov-17-2005 19:34

Hercule Poirot, all the way. You use the most ridiculous of things to weave out complicated murder plots with the "little grey cells." Go, go, Poirot!!

I especially love Poirot in "Death on the Nile," and "The Mysterious Affair at Styles." Without that egg-shaped head and mustache, Poirot would look too typical. So, my sleuth is Hercule Poirot.

Nov-17-2005 21:10

Miss Marple. I love the way she compares people she meets to other people she has known. I experience that in my real life, too. Although I don't think I have ever solved a crime because of it...

Nov-17-2005 23:18

Magnum P.I.!!!come on easy cases,chicks dig me, living on an island paradise!!!

Nov-18-2005 07:16

Kinsey Milhone - ('A is for Alibi' series) I can just imagine actually living like that (and of course I'd love to live in coastal California again!!!)

Nov-19-2005 03:35

Peter R de Vries

Only dutchies will understand that ;)

Nov-20-2005 01:34

reda, now I am going to have to check and see if the story I read the other day was a Peter R de Vries story, not sure, but I do know it was Dutch!

Nov-20-2005 01:39

I like Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs.

Nov-20-2005 03:33

Sherlock Holmes. I love Victorian England!

Nov-20-2005 10:11

Miss Marple. Sensible and shrewd, she is excellent at solving any mystery. Comparisons, like Moonshh says, are her strengths.

Nov-20-2005 11:31

Moonsh as far as I know Peter R. de Vries is not a writer.
He used to be a police detective, but for the last 10 years he has a tv show.
He cracks cases the police failed to, or opens up new cases.
Im sure jstkdn will correct me if Im wrong ;)